World War I was horrific, over 18 million lives lost and 23 million people were wounded. So who is that we should blame for starting all of this? Well that’s what we have been looking at in class this past week.

We learned about what people thought caused the war, and what Canada was doing right before the war. Starting of with a time period commonly known as the Laurier Era. We read a few articles on who Wilfred Laurier was and what impact he had on Canada. As well as briefly looking at who Robert Borden was and what he had to contribute in World War I. We showed this all in a Keynote presentation which we were in groups for an dwe were each assigned a topic. My group included Willa, Will and Sam. Here is my groups work:

So after learning about that we then went onto look into different aspects that started the war. And think what is my point of view on this subject and who do I think started the war? Well to help us figure that out we read a book called World War: A battle of perspectives that discussed 4 different people and who they thought started the war. There was one person that I specifcly agreed with and his name is J Remak. He believed that it wasn’t one person or country that started the war but rather everyone. That everyone is to blame and yet no one is to blame.

I agree with him because he points out that no one could predict that the war was going to happen. That each country just wanted to be better then the other and yet in the long run didn’t know it would cause a massive, terrible war. For example England wanted peace and were talking about peace possibilities before Germany then went and asked them to  mobilize with them. Eventually though they decided that it would be smart to join Germany and help Austria even though not long after that they fought Russia. Some people will disagree with him saying that Germany took the most risk meaning that they wanted to start the war but in reality Germany helped Austria so if they really wanted to start a war they would not have done that.

But what were the other perspectives? Well in a video that I made with Sofia and Hannah we explain two other people talking about who they thought started the war, here it is:

https://youtu.be/vbyDlVJNbjk

This was our first draft and we all admitted that it wasn’t out best work. We were told that we needed to improve the audio as well as the transitions and background because it all wasn’t equal. So with what we then had to do in my mind we set forward to create another draft and so here it is, the second and final draft:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8L08NKzf_HI

After filming and editing this video we felt that we had improved our work and we are all proud of it. It showed because we put more time into where we filmed and the lighting. As the teacher it wasn’t the info but rather the actual production of the video.

Overall it was interesting to learn all of the different perspectives that people think of when the war began. It is a terrible thing that happened but it helped Canada as a whole to become itself and really change the world for as we see it today. So until we learn some more war facts.

Bye for Now!